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Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove
The European Union AI Act will begin to be enforceable in August 2026, one month from now. One of the biggest new requirements is Article 50, which requires all…
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AI coding agents are removing programming language barriers
AI coding tools are dissolving the language barriers that once defined our careers. As someone who coded exclusively in Ruby for a decade, I’m now contributing to low-level system projects I couldn’t have touched before. Here’s how AI coding agents enabled my leap from Ruby to C, C++, and Rust.
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OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally
How a push for simpler setup and a first-class browser experience grew into OpenClaw 2.0.
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Call-to-Action on SB 1047 – Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act
California legislators, under the influence of Effective Altruism activists, are trying to sneak through a disastrous bill for open-source AI and the technology industry generally. SB 1047 creates an unaccountable Frontier Model Division that will be staffed by EAs with police powers, and which can throw model…
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The jobs being replaced by AI – an analysis of 5M freelancing jobs
Last Updated: January 23, 2026There’s no question that AI will impact jobs. But which jobs are more likely…
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Don't Use AI to Write
Writing requires thinking, don't let an AI do the thinking for you.
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Google’s Cloud TPU Pods are now publicly available in beta
Cloud TPU Pods are now available in beta, helping you train models faster and at lower cost in the cloud.
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Do NLP Beyond English
7000+ languages are spoken around the world but NLP research has mostly focused on English. This post outlines why you should work on languages other than English.
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AI must RTFM: Why tech writers are becoming context curators
I’ve been noticing a trend among developers that use AI: they are increasingly writing and structuring docs in context …
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Faster Python calculations with Numba
Python-based calculations, especially those that use NumPy, can run much faster by using the Numba library.
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CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code?
We tested 19 LLMs on their ability to handle real-world software engineering tasks like compiling old code and cross-compiling. See how Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google models stack up in our new benchmark – CompileBench.
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AI helps add 10k more photos to OldNYC
Over the past two years I’ve quietly rebuilt major parts of the OldNYC photo viewer . The result: 10,000 additional historic photos on the map , more accurate locations, and a site that’s cheaper and easier to run—thanks to modern AI tools and the OpenStreetMap ecosystem.
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Reading across books with Claude Code
In which we teach an agent to read syntopically.
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The Most Cited AI Papers in 2022
Who Is publishing the most Impactful AI research right now? With the breakneck pace of innovation in AI, it is crucial to pick up some signal as soon as possible. No one has the time to read everything, but these 100 papers are sure to bend the road as to where our AI technology is going. The real test of impact of…
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Visualizing Bayes Theorem (2009)
I recently came up with what I think is an intuitive way to explain Bayes’ Theorem. I searched in google for a while and could not find any article that explains it in this particular way.
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Review: The Book of Why
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect is a collaborative effort aimed at a general audience by Judea Pearl , a professor of computer science at UCLA, and Dana Mackenzie , a science writer. As a medical student with a laughably poor formal education in statistics, I believe I qualify as a card-carrying…
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LLM tech comes to Wolfram Language
Wolfram's Version 13.3 includes a subsystem around LLMs plus new functionality in integrals, special functions, finite fields, computational geometry, live highlighting in visualizations, AR & VR deployment. See examples for those and dozens of other enhancements.
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Roblox Open Sources Real-Time Voice Safety Model
The Research Team at Roblox is discovering new possibilities for the next generation of technology.
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Effective context engineering for AI agents
In this post, we explore strategies for effectively curating and managing their context.
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Machine learning can boost the value of wind energy
Carbon-free technologies like renewable energy help combat climate change, but many of them have not reached their full potential. Consider wind power: over the past decade, wind farms have become an important source of carbon-free electricity as the cost of turbines has plummeted and adoption has surged. However, the…
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LLMs know more than what they say
... and how that provides winning evals
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A Short Chronology of Deep Learning for Tabular Data
Occasionally, I share research papers proposing new deep learning approaches for tabular data on social media, which is typically an excellent discussion…
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Flare: Clojure Dynamic Neural Net Library
I wrote Flare, a Dynamic Neural Net library in Clojure.
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FlashAttention: Fast Transformer training with long sequences
Transformers have grown deeper and wider, but training them on long sequences remains difficult. The attention layer at their heart is the compute and memory bottleneck: doubling the sequence length would quadruple the runtime and memory requirements.
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Introduction to Bert
Unless you have been out of touch with the Deep Learning world, chances are that you have heard about BERT — it has been the talk of the town for the last one year. At the end of 2018 researchers …
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Computational predictions of protein structures associated with COVID-19
The scientific community has galvanised in response to the recent COVID-19 outbreak, building on decades of basic research characterising this virus family. Labs at the forefront of the outbreak response shared genomes of the virus in open access databases, which enabled researchers to rapidly develop tests for this…